Reflections & Research:
Sustainability
August 22, 2013
Creating virtuous cycles
Scott Osborn / Unsplash What activities are key to serving your primary audiences, but also positively affect other audiences? As I was driving on a family trip, I heard a re-broadcast of a “This American Life” segment on the great American adventure of summer camps for children and teenagers. The reporters were detailing the various rituals […]
read moreabout Creating virtuous cyclesApril 25, 2011
Everything is about stories
Joe Richman, RadioLabs There is no more important thing you can do than to get other people to tell you their stories, says the founder of Radio Diaries. Joe Richman wouldn’t want to document his life for a year with an audio recorder, but that doesn’t stop him from asking others to. As the founder […]
read moreabout Everything is about storiesJanuary 11, 2010
Storytelling and story listening
Photo from Unsplash Storytelling assumes uncertainty. The Southern writer talks about how teachers, preachers and leaders can use storytelling to engage their audiences — and why he has returned to church. Clyde Edgerton grew up in a family with 23 aunts and uncles and was inspired to be a writer after hearing Eudora Welty read “Why […]
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